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| Tekijä: | Gould, E.D. Lavy, V. Paserman, M.D. |
| Otsikko: | Does immigration affect the long-term educational outcomes of natives? Quasi-experimental evidence |
| Lehti: | Economic Journal
2009 : OCT, VOL. 119:540 p. 1344-1373 |
| Asiasana: | migration Israel Middle East education academic research |
| Kieli: | eng |
| Tiivistelmä: | This paper uses the mass migration wave to Israel in the 1990s to explore the effect of immigrant concentration during elementary school on the long-term academic outcomes of native students in high school. To identify the causal effect of immigrant children on their native peers, the empirical strategy must address two sources of bias: the endogenous sorting of immigrants across schools, and the endogenous grade placement of immigrants within schools. The presented study controls for the endogeneity of immigrant placement across schools by conditioning on the total number of immigrants in a school and exploit random variation in the number of migrants across grades within the same school. The results suggest that the overall presence of immigrants in a grade had a remarkable and large adverse effect on two important outcomes for Israeli natives: the dropout rate and the chances of passing the high school matriculation exam which is necessary to attend college. |
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